Every single person has their own way to parent their children.
Sometimes I threaten the kids with things that I can never actually follow through on.
I threaten to send them to the moon and I sometimes threaten to knock them into next week. Some parents tell their kids that they brought them into this world and they can take them out. I can’t or wouldn’t do any of those things, but it gets my point across when I am angry. The kids make me feel so frustrated and they know how to push all of my buttons. They make me feel crazy some days. One thing that does work is when I threaten to take the bedroom AC away from the kids. We live in a colder climate and summer cooling is not exactly a priority. When it is warm during July, the kids have a bedroom AC unit that they can use. My wife and I also have an AC unit in our bedroom. It makes sleeping a lot more comfortable. When the kids don’t do their chores during the summer, I absolutely threaten to remove the AC unit from their bedroom. They know that when I make a threat, I am serious. I’m not sure that I would ever actually take the cooling unit from their room, because I think that is a little bit like torture. I know they don’t want me to take the machine, because they always end up doing their chores after I go ballistic and start yelling threats that make no sense.